99
86
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THE KWONG WAH HOSPITAL.
414. This hospital does for Kowloon and the Peninsula what the Tung Wah and Tung Wah Eastern do for the island of Hong Kong. There is official accommodation for about 320 beds of which 231 are for general diseases, 16 are for tuberculosis cases and 59 are for maternity cases. There are 12 private wards.
415. The accommodation cannot keep pace with the growth in population. Kowloon has considerably more than doubled itself during the last ten years. No patient is turned away for want of room and in both medical and surgical wards it is com- mon to find two in a bed, and others sleeping on the floor.
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416. The staff consists of a Senior Resident Medical Officer whose salary is paid by the Government, and three Junior Medical Officers paid by the Directors.
417. There are also a number of Chinese Herbalists, without any recognised qualification, who practise Chinese medicme and are paid out of Hospital funds.
418. The patients, on admittance, can choose whether they desire treatment on Western or Chinese lines.
419.
Inpatients.
Western
treatment.
Chinese treatment.
Total
8,204
9,517
2,283 2,839
10,487
11,856
420. There were 255 major operations, the number for 1931 being 157.
1931
1932
87
425. As with the Tung Wah, while there was an increase in the number of inpatients over the previous year there was a decrease in the outpatients.
THE TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL.
426. This Hospital continues to do very good work. It serves the useful purpose of reminding the older foundation-the Tung Wah-what it is possible for a Chinese Hospital to be. Everything is new and clean and it had the advantage of starting fresh in up-to-date buildings.
427. The staff consists of a Chinese Medical Officer paid for by Government, Dr. Phoon Seck Weng, and two Junior Doctors appointed by the Directors of the Tung Wah.
428. For the greater part of the year the official number of heds was 195. Actually these numbers were augmented by canvas camp beds where the pressure of cases was heavy. To- wards the end of the year the opening of the last new wing added another 84 beds, making a total of 279.
429. The 84 new beds comprise 70 for general cases and 14 for maternity. With the camp beds the total number which can be accommodated is at least 300.
430. The hospital is now completed and is a model of what charity hospital should be, viz., all space occupied without wasting and without overcrowding. Each bed in the general ward has 60 square feet of space only, but such is the plan of the ward and the arrangement of the beds that each of the latter has ample lighting and ventilation.
421. There were 3,327 labours as compared with 3,245 in 1931. Still-births numbered 183.
422.
Outpatients.
Western treatment.
1931..
1932..
.51,600 (including
436 gynaecology) .40,537
Chinese treatment.
90,500
Total.
142,100
97,898
137,935
423. There were 2,520 eye cases as compared with: 3,650 for the previous year.
424. The number of deaths in hospital was 8,573. As in the Tung Wah, the number of dea hs is influenced by many factors which have nothing to do with treatment in the hospital.
431.
1931
1982
Western treatment.
2,185
2,690
Inpatients.
Chinese treatment.
Maternity.
Total.
1,345
667
1,872
588
4.197
5,150
432.
Major General Anaesthesia.
Under General Anaesthesia.
1931
116
1932
159
433.
Outpatients. Western
treatment.
Chinese treatment.
Total.
1931
12,471
45,931
58,402
1932
16,012
46,283
62,295
Vaccinations.
1931
273
1932
414
100